🐭 NEW: Researchers at #VirginiaTech trained mice to link a tone with a mild foot shock, then played the tone while the #animals were paired up.
Mice that had lived together moved closer to one another. Mice paired with strangers did not. Blocking a pathway to the ventral #hippocampus, or #oxytocin receptors, erased that response.
👉 https://www.futurity.org/danger-mice-friends-3346092/
#neuroscience #amygdala #animalbehavior #memory #rodents #research #psychology #brain #science
